October 30, 2013
Leah Collins
Stanley Cup winners, Wall Street investors, NASA scientists, Atlantic fishermen: when faced with a broken mirror or bad feng shui maybe those guys wouldn’t toss a fistful of salt over their shoulders. But they’re all superstitious in their own ways. We all are, no matter where we live, what we do or what we believe. So claims “Superstitious Minds,” a new episode of CBC’s Doc Zone airing Halloween night.
The film travels around the world – from Montreal to Mexico City to New York and Hong Kong – investigating both the origins of so many superstitious rituals, and why human beings are hard-wired to find meaning and patterns in the unexplained phenomena around them. Here, producer Kenneth Hirsch talks about making the film. He didn’t think of himself as superstitious before starting work on the project, but find out how that changed.
Read the full article and watch the trailer:
http://www.cbc.ca/live/tv-film/lucky-you-read-all-about-doc-zones-superstitious-minds